iPad mini pics published on Twitter

Photos purporting to show the iPad mini have been published on Twitter just a day before invitations for the grand reveal are expected to arrive.

Australian Sonny Dickson, a researcher for 9to5Mac, has published the photos on his Twitter and Instagram accounts.

Some of the snaps show the device against a standard iPad and an iPhone, giving perspective to the size of what Dickson claims is the iPad mini. He also has several shots that show the same Lightning port as found in the iPhone 5.